to tumble
61tumble — v 1. fall down, fall end over end, pitch, pitch forward, precipitate oneself, fall headlong, go down, Inf. take a spill, Inf. take a flyer or a header or a pratfall; slip, stagger, totter, falter, lose one s footing, lose one s equilibrium, Inf.… …
62tumble — [13] Tumble was borrowed from Middle Low German tummelen, which has other relatives in modern German tummeln ‘bustle, hurry’ and taumeln ‘reel, stagger’. All were formed from a base that also found its way into the Romance languages, producing… …
63tumble-dryer — noun a clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air • Syn: ↑tumble drier • Hypernyms: ↑clothes dryer, ↑clothes drier * * * tumˈble drīˈer or tumbˈle dryˈer noun A machine that dries (clothes, etc) by tumbling them in a… …
64tumble up — phrasal 1. : to go or come quickly on deck men are still tumbling up from below, racing to their battle stations E.L.Beach 2. dialect : to roll hay into bundles for pitching * * * tumble up 1. To get out of bed 2. To throw into confusion …
65tumble home — I. intransitive verb : to incline inward above the waterline or greatest breadth : fall home compare batter III; used chiefly of the sides of a ship II. noun : a receding upward slope (as of a ship s sides) : an inclination inward from the… …
66tumble dryer — noun see tumble dry …
67tumble drying — noun see tumble dry …
68Tumble dryer — Abluft Wäschetrockner Ein Wäschetrockner ist ein Haushaltsgerät von der Größe einer Waschmaschine, welches dazu benutzt wird, feuchte Textilien unter Zufuhr von warmer Luft maschinell in kurzer Zeit zu trocknen. Umgangssprachlich werden… …
69tumble cart — a horse drawn cart having two solid wheels. Also called tumble car. [1885 90] * * * …
70tumble-down — /tum beuhl down /, adj. dilapidated; ruined; rundown: He lived in a tumble down shack. [1810 20] * * * …
